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title: The lava burst from the side of the mountain about half-way between… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The lava burst from the side of the mountain about half-way between the summit and the sea in magnificent tossing waves, a river hundreds of feet across, dashing over old lava flows, burning the ferns and trees of the forest which had grown on lava a hundred years and more of age. Who acts: lava, ol
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 11

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The lava burst from the side of the mountain about half-way between the summit and the sea in magnificent tossing waves, a river hundreds of feet across, dashing over old lava flows, burning the ferns and trees of the forest which had grown on lava a hundred years and more of age.

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**Who acts:** lava, old lava, forest · **What happens:** burst, dash, flow, burn, grow · **To what, where:** river hundreds, side, ferns, lava

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava, old lava, forest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:7:11
# text = The lava burst from the side of the mountain about half-way between the summit and the sea in magnificent tossing waves, a river hundreds of feet across, dashing over old lava flows, burning the ferns and trees of the forest which had grown on lava a hundred years and more of age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	tossing	tossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	dashing	dash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the lava | river hundreds of feet |  | the side of the mountain about half way between the summit and the sea in magnificent tossing waves |  | across *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | gerund | the lava *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flow** | present | old lava |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | old lava *not said here* | the ferns of the forest and trees |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fern=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past · perfect | the forest |  |  | lava | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lava=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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